10000 Hours of Design Skills- How do you reach in 9 Steps

Learning a skill for about 10,000 hours will make you the master of that trade. It is very true for a design. And how do you exactly achieve this in nine steps or if you really wanted to improve your design ability to a next level, this podcast is exactly for you how you can reach your 10,000 hours of design skills. Take a lot of notes. This is going to be an implementation podcast as well. I'm going to be giving you an action points how you can implement it in real time. Okay, let's jump in. So why it is prevalently said that 10,000 hours of design skill is very important. I have learnt this from my mentor. If you really wanted to become a neurosurgeon or if you wanted to go into space and if you want to become a scientist, if you wanted to learn any particular skill, all it matters is you'll have to spend that undivided attention for 10,000 hours. Okay? On a day to day basis, weekly basis, monthly basis. What will happen is eventually you will accumulate a knowledge equal to that expertise in that field. Lot of people have a distracted mindset majority I would say, and that's why they are not able to channelize on that thing. Another big challenge is people don't know what skill to focus. This podcast I'm going to tell you nine different ways of achieving that mastery of 10,000 hours.

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So one first important step I would say is first choose any craft, guys.

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So understand this basic fact. 10,000 is a proven number scientifically and some people get it in 5,000 to 6,000, 7,000 hours. But let's keep it in an average 10,000 hours.

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So first remember that point. The second is read every single day, one hour of any subject which you want to become mastered of, let's say design skill or anything which is relating to the design or anything.

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So I'll tell you guys, if you read one hour every day for three years continuously, you will become a master of that subject.

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You will definitely get an equivalent of one or two PhDs. If you read five years like that continuously, you will become a national celebrity in that field. If you do it consistently for seven years every day, one one hour reading, you will become international celebrity in that particular field, guys, CNN and IBN and all this media will be standing across your compound walls of your house to waiting for you to get your insights in. And government officials will be interested to talk to you about the different policies which they can implement and how the country can get benefit out of it. Let's say if you're an expertise in AI. If your expertise in computing, if your expertise in data, if your expertise in design. No matter guys, seven years consistently. If you focus, you will become a national, international celebrity of it. So what will have. So what will happen if you do that? You'll be the most celebrated designer or you'll be the most valued designer or you will be the most most important VIP in that field. Jagdish. Seven years is really long here. Any which way seven years is going to go. Guys, do you think seven years is not going to be coming? If you are in an age of 25, you will get 32, right? If you are an age of 33, you will get 40, right? But imagine what will be your life after 40 or after 31 or 32. Any which ways you are going to have a substandard life or. Or if you have some other plans, that's okay. But if you're looking into a design, spend this consistently. See, reaching 10,000 hours is not the point, okay? Becoming that person of who you are in the journey is the point. You will definitely become a person. You will definitely become a different person, guys, because that's the journey. I've been. I've been learning this design skills for more than 4.5 years. And I found myself in a very different place starting from there. See, when I joined design, I would be in the last 10% of the industry. I would say last 5 percentage. But right now I feel like I'm in the top 10 or even the top 2 percentage of the designers in the country because of I'm consistently learning and I'm putting efforts and I'm teaching students by that also I'm learning. So the kind of confidence which I've got before, that is very different now. So eventually you will also gain that confidence because you are in the process, you are in the action, you are in the momentum, okay? So do not leave that. Guys, don't think that hey, I have to do it for three years or five years or this any which way time is going to go. Guys, please understand this factor. Lot of people don't understand this. They just stop and procrastinate this thinking it will take huge time, okay? So the third important thing is lack of skills is the biggest excuse people give in any industry. Any corporate, any office problem, guys, any dispute, if you see any ego fight, clash, does that any any miscommunication, Any problem happens in an organization, if you track back it very carefully, it will be a lack of skill which will patch up everything. This is very, very True. Guys, my mentor used to always say this with a very good statistics and information in order to prove that people don't understand this particular value. And because of your lack of skills, you're not able to fulfill the project timeline or you're not able to fulfill the expectation of a customer. And that's where all the root of problem comes. If you're able to fulfill that, if the business value is justified, automatically your client will appreciate and give you business. Right? So your business is going to grow, your value is going to become high, you're going to get new projects, you're going to get new innovations. So it all comes down to the lack of skills. That's why I wanted to tell you reaching 10,000 hours is not joke unless you understand this. Fourth important thing is you're always one skill away from reaching your 2x productivity case. Let's say if you're earning 60,000amonth or if you're earning some 1 lakh rupees a month or 2 lakh rupees a month, you want to double your salary. Okay, so how do you really do that? This is very, very important question which a lot of people don't ask. You are always one skill away guys. So how do I find that one skill? Jagdish. So first write down what skill you decide you wanted to become. A person who want to go into next level. Let's say if you wanted to earn 2 lakh per month as a designer, what are the skills which you require? Write it down in a paper. Okay, so now choose top three skills out of it. Step two, just do it exactly as you will find it out. Step three is out of these top three skills. Imagine if you have a magic wand with you. Same like a Harry Potter. If you wake up tomorrow with mastering this, any one of this skill out of this three, you will see a huge improvement in your career. You will see a huge salary growth in your career. You will see a huge value potential in your design career, which is that one skill which you wanted to master overnight by using your magic wand. Close your eyes and think circle that one skill. So now transfer this into a new clean sheet of paper. The moment when you have finding this one skill, you are separating away from the 80 percentage crowded population. Guys. Okay, now you're in a great, great, amazing person who clearly knows what exactly needs to be focused. And then focus one hour of learning in that subject. Get 10 or 20 different books, download different podcast and audio materials. When you're traveling, you can listen to it, download a lot of YouTube and other materials which is related to this topic. Learn from a good mentors. Choose a very good program which you can accept and grow in it.

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If you're finding product design and UI ux, I would highly, highly suggest you can send an email to this DFC Design for Change where you can join my program. Okay. This is a chance I can promote my. Yeah, I mean I would say it's not just promoting, it's like changing one people life through this mentorship program. A lot of people life is getting transformed because of the program designed for change. And if you are part of that one and you will feel really overwhelmed and happy for that. And I also feel great in helping a student for that. Okay, so this is the fourth important thing. Find that one skill and come to it. Fifth important thing is I'll give you some perspective guys. See there is a expertise which you can build as a designer in sketching, researching color knowledge, composition, design, graphics, wireframing, prototyping, doing ideation systems and learning system thinking learning, critical thinking learning, behavioral design learning, psychometric design, learning visceral aspects of design, learning the user interface and user experience, part of design, learning, the primary, secondary, tertiary, quantitative, qualitative, all the methods and you can learn huge amount of skills in design. Guys, design is having huge number of skills.

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Why I'm telling you all these things is don't get overwhelmed with others. What they say this is the sixth important point. Okay, fifth important point is lot of skills is there, please choose one. Sixth important point is make sure it is from your own value, your own priority, your own interest and it should match your own goal. Don't just fall for hey, everybody is doing wireframing here in Figma. Let me learn that. Don't get fantasized with those tools and flashy graphics, guys. You will never end up making a even a normal design in your career or normal designer. You will get a 20, 30,000 of job years. That's it. Your career will end like that. Reflect on your true goal, your true value, your true intention of being a designer. And then choose that skill. Don't just fall for others. What they say? The seventh important thing is now having choose that one particular skill. Choose accountability partner or a mentorship program and have a patience and follow the process. Very, very, very very important thing, guys. Okay, lot of people miss this step. They think that I'll manage on my own here. YouTube is there, chat GPT is there. I'll do everything. You will learn nothing. Guys. I'll normally tell to my students, it takes 150 years for you to figure it out, everything on your own and learn it. If you're someone who is starting up design, okay, so choose an accountability partner, a mentor who is at least 10 to 50 times better and higher than you. Then and only they are called accountability partners and mentors. Don't just choose your. Hey, he's my uncle's son. He's my cousin, he's my friend. Hey, he's my next door guy. This is not your play, what you're doing in your career. Guys, this is not a joke. Career is something very, very serious and very important. And particularly if you are a designer, you have a lot of responsibility to hold. It's not going to be a joke game, okay? So choose someone who is 50 times 100 than 50 times bigger than you. If you are starting up as a product designer, make sure your your mentor should at least have completed 50 different projects. Or he's a award winning product designer or he has mastered a big skill and he is working in a big organization, served international clients, something like that. If you're already a big designer, find out who is an international celebrity in design and just make sure you have an accountability and mentorship with them. Okay? So choose that then and only you will become. See, guys, the average of 10 people whom you associate with is your real success in your life. Take your phone, see the last 10 numbers you dialed, write their names. Their average salary is your salary. Their average health status is your health status. Their average happiness and fulfillment in your life is your average fulfillment in your life. Their average debt is your debt. Read that. Listen to this one more time, okay? The average of 10 people in your contact list whom you talk and associate with in your life is your result. So if your life needs to change, the people whom you associate needs to change. I'm not telling you go and shit your friends and then you block their numbers and you don't talk. I'm not telling that. Slowly resonate with the values and the goals and true important essence in your life. Automatically you will start shifting to a different perspective and your life will profoundly grow in design, in your professional growth, in your health, in your relationship, in your financial everything, guys, okay? 8th important thing is if you consistently take an action, if you consistently make it as a habit to learn that skill, like reading a book or watching a program, or learning a mentorship program, that will compound into a different way. Guys, the reason why I told you to do it for three years, five years, seven years is it's a Long term benefit. It's the eighth wonder what Albert instance says compounding effect. In fact, Warren Buffett also says money can only be understood if you understood compounding effect in a different way. This is how you can generate a lot of wealth. He has did that. He's the seventh, he's seven times richest person in the world. So you need to take an action consistent with the habit and have a self discipline with your mentor and accountability partner and you will see the compounding effect. Guys, initially, if you follow something consistently for three, four months or five months and all, you'll not get any results, guys. You'll feel bored. Hey, am I really going to get results or not? You know what the beauty of compounding result is? Initially it will be very boring. It will not give you any benefits. But once if you start getting results, you will see multifolds, returns and surprises and big things and achievements and money and wealth and everything will flow into you guys. And you will be wondering, hey, how come this much is coming into my career here? Because of the work what you did in the initial years. So this is why compounding effect is very important. Okay, the ninth and the last important thing is guys, see the ability to choose your task, the ability to choose your biggest priority in your life, the ability to choose one good skill which you wanted to master and the ability to choose a mentor and the ability to focus on that consistently as a habit for continuously 30 days or 90 days or 1 year or 3 years or 5 years is the determining factor of your success. If you're not able to decide clearly on what skill you want, if you're not able to decide on what mentorship you want, if you're not able to decide on the what action you wanted to focus, focus in a day. Whatever we discussed in this podcast is not going to have any significance, guys. To close this podcast, I'm going to tell you this is the magic bullet, guys. You need to able to choose the right skill, right mentorship, right person who is resonating with your right values and then only your life will profoundly change and you will reach 10,000 hours plus in design skill. Jagdish how to choose the right thing? Let me tell you guys. Be honest and true to yourself. In your design career, automatically you will find right skill, right people, right moment, right company, right project, right portfolio, right people attracting in your life. Because if you are true to yourself, your real design will come out of it. Let it be colors, composition, sketching, ideas, craziness, anything. Because I found that what you are really thinking about yourself and what you're really resonating with you as a person will bring in design concepts what you may okay I hope you love this podcast. Thank you so much for listening. Please give me best star rating if you find this valuable in Apple and Spotify and if you need my mentorship support in learning and mastering this 10,000 skills. Even some of my students have reached job Design full time job 2x salaries and 3x salaries and got internship opportunities in less than 2000 to 3000 hours also. Okay, but I would suggest if you complete 10,000 hours your life will profoundly change in a different way. Okay, you can write out to this email DFC Design for Change and me on my team will help you out to join in my mentorship internship program where you can master your life by learning that with a mentor and an accountability partner. Okay, so take care guys. All the best. See you. Bye bye and we'll catch you in the next episode.